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Chapter 9 English Idioms 9. 0 Introduction Korean: To establish a business is easy, to maintain it is difficulty. Hungarian: If you want to get rid of your friend, lent him money.( If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again. 你若想与人成仇结怨，只要借钱给人再催还。) Yiddish: Money buys everything except brain. Chinese idioms: 1. A word spoken is past recalling. 2. Strike while the iron is hot. 3. Where there is a will there is a way. 4. Empty vessels make the greatest sound. 5. Time and tide wait for no man. 6. Second thoughts are best. 7. Like teacher like pupil. 8. He that talks much errs much. 9. Standers-by see more than gamesters. 10. Practice makes perfect 11. A bad workman quarrels with his tools. 12. Many words cut more than swords. 13. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. 14. A great ship asks deep waters. 15. Murder will out. 16. He that mischief hatches, mischief catches. 17. It is no use crying over spilt milk. 18. Homer sometimes nods. 19. Men may meet but mountains never. No great loss without some small gain. 21. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 英文谚语大全 /redirect.php?tid=694351goto=lastpost 9.1 What is an idiom? The word ‘idiom’ comes from Greek ‘idios’ ultimately from ‘idioma—’,meaning one’s own, private, peculiar. e.g. 1) John used a ‘red herring’ in his argument: John introduced an irrelevant question to turn attention away from the main issue. 2) to fly off the handle: become excessively angry 3) to have second thoughts 4) the lion’s share 5) She washed her hands of the matter.（她不再过问这件事了） 6) She refused to have anything more to do with the matter. （她不想和这件事有什么关系了 An idiom is an expression that is not readily understandable form its literal meaning of individual constituents. An expression which function as a single unit and whose meaning cannot be worked out from its separate parts. 作为一个单位使用的，意义不能从其独立的组成部分得出的一种表达法。 e.g. 1) k